photo_organizer
Organize your photos by date.
Installation
exiftool
You need exiftool installed in order to read metadata from photos/videos.
On Ubuntu/Debian et al. you can install it with:
sudo apt install exiftool
For other distributions or platforms, please refer to these instructions.
photo_organizer
git clone https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer.git
Nix flakes
cd photo_organizer
echo "use flake" >> .envrc
python3 photo_organizer.py -h
Other
cd photo_organizer
pip install pyexiftool
python3 photo_organizer.py -h
Usage
photo_organizer will currently reorganize your photos/videos to directories named by year, inside of which the files are named by the complete date the photo/video was taken/shot.
There are future plans to also incorporate the geographical location of the photo/video in the file structure; probably as subdirectories for each year.
usage: photo_organizer.py [-h] [--exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]]
[--suffix SUFFIX [SUFFIX ...]]
[--prefix PREFIX [PREFIX ...]] --out OUT --dir DIR
[--log LOG] [--delete-after-copy]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]
Exclude paths containing any of these strings
--suffix SUFFIX [SUFFIX ...]
Filter on file name suffix
--prefix PREFIX [PREFIX ...]
Filter on file name prefix
--out OUT Output directory path
--dir DIR Input directory path
--log LOG Log file path
--delete-after-copy Delete the original file after it has been copied and
renamed OR skipped. BACKUP your input before doing
this.
Go from an unorganized mess of photos to something cleaner
Executing ./photo_organizer.py --dir ~/Pictures/photo_organizer_test/ --out ./test --log log.txt gives the following.
Before
├── photo_organizer_test
│ ├── 121010_m_uy543_012_by_wright_usmc_d5hr70h.jpg
│ ├── 3_times_a_day_by_hersley_dvzs8y.jpg
│ ├── an_odd_couple_by_driftermanifesto_d4y9ql7.jpg
│ ├── band_of_brothers_by_combatcamera09_d5a3pch.jpg
│ ├── baskunchak_by_alexmaker34_d3co5p2.jpg
│ ├── good_morning_vietnam___lampions_in_hue_by_rikitza_dc1xbja.jpg
│ ├── have_a_seat_by_ulivonboedefeld_d29qnz3.jpg
│ ├── hoi_an_people___xii_by_inayatshah_davrdz5.jpg
│ ├── ied_detection_dog_by_militaryphotos_d55rz1x.jpg
│ └── smiles_by_digitalgrace_d1llmdg.jpg
After
└── test
├── 2006
│ └── 2006.12.19_17.59.15.jpg
├── 2007
│ └── 2007.04.13_07.51.30.jpg
├── 2009
│ └── 2009.09.17_01.45.58.jpg
├── 2011
│ └── 2011.03.27_12.04.52.jpg
├── 2012
│ ├── 2012.01.04_16.39.13.jpg
│ ├── 2012.03.18_11.27.36.jpg
│ ├── 2012.07.22_20.54.54.jpg
│ └── 2012.10.10_10.23.01.jpg
├── 2014
│ └── 2014.01.06_03.34.56.jpg
├── 2018
│ └── 2018.01.18_06.15.46.jpg
└── failed